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Originally Posted by Catlady
OK, from now on, please assume that the statement "I can't buy from Amazon" means: "I can't buy from Amazon without violating their TOS and possibly violating copyright law by stripping DRM and converting the format to one my reader can handle, and why would I want to do that except in the extremely rare case that Amazon carries a book I want to read that is unavailable elsewhere." It's really just too much to type every time.
I don't care what Amazon does. I simply find it curious that in the pursuit of sales of e-readers and e-books, they have decided to drive away customers of long standing.
 I am happy. How does that somehow mean I can't have an opinion about Amazon?
Heaven forbid a customer comment on why she became a former customer! |
If you had wanted to buy a Kindle from Amazon and Amazon said "Nope we don't sell to people who like cats wearing hats" then I could understand the complaint. I am fairly certain that Amazon would sell Kindles to computer literate cats, hat wearing or otherwise, with a credit card so that you could have selected a Kindle. You chose a different device. You knew it wasn't supported by Amazon when you chose that device.
Amazon did not choose to drive away customers. You chose to buy a device that Amazon does not support. That was your choice, not theirs. I chose to buy a device not supported by Sony. I am not running around complaining that Sony won't sell to me because I knew that when I bought my Kindle.
You are free to have an opinion. Just as we are free to interpret said opinion. If you were really happy with your ebook selection for your device I doubt that you would care that Amazon does not sell ebooks in the EPub format. The regular repeating of the same complaint sends a signal to me, and I suspect others on this board, that you really want Amazon to sell books in EPub so that you can buy them.
Now you want Amazon to change its business model because of a choice that you made.